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# Prompting

[Beginner](/prompting/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/prompting/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/prompting/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/prompting/expert/index.md)

18 resources

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### [Interactive prompt engineering tutorial](/e/anthropic-prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial)

Hands-on notebook course: you edit prompts and see results, no coding needed.

Beginner · claude · date not stated

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### [Prompt engineering overview (Claude docs)](/e/anthropic-prompt-engineering-overview/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview)

Official starting point for prompting Claude, with links to each technique.

Beginner · claude · date not stated

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### [Prompt Engineering Guide](/e/dair-prompt-engineering-guide/index.md)

by [DAIR.AI](https://www.promptingguide.ai/)

Broad, frequently updated reference of named prompting techniques.

Beginner · any · date not stated

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### [Prompt design strategies (Gemini API)](/e/google-gemini-prompt-design-strategies/index.md)

by [Google](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/prompting-strategies)

Google's official prompting guide with clear before/after examples.

Beginner · gemini · date not stated

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### [Learn Prompting](/e/learnprompting-learn-prompting/index.md)

by [Learn Prompting](https://learnprompting.org/)

Free structured course for people with no technical background.

Beginner · any · date not stated

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### [Prompt engineering (OpenAI API docs)](/e/openai-prompt-engineering-guide/index.md)

by [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-engineering)

OpenAI's official baseline on message roles, instructions and examples.

Beginner · gpt · date not stated

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### [Prompting best practices (Claude docs)](/e/anthropic-claude-prompting-best-practices/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices)

Current-model guidance in one page: XML structure, examples, thinking, agentic use. (Old use-xml-tags, multishot and extended-thinking-tips URLs redirect here.)

Intermediate · claude · date not stated

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### [Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply them Effectively](/e/eugeneyan-prompting-fundamentals/index.md)

by [Eugene Yan](https://eugeneyan.com/writing/prompting/)

Practitioner write-up applying core techniques to real tasks.

Intermediate · any · 2024-05-26

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### [Structured outputs (Gemini API)](/e/google-gemini-structured-output/index.md)

by [Google](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/structured-output)

Gemini's equivalent: constrain responses to a JSON schema.

Intermediate · gemini · date not stated

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### [Prompt engineering how-to (Llama docs)](/e/meta-llama-prompting-guide/index.md)

by [Meta](https://dev.meta.ai/llama/docs/how-to-guides/prompting)

Official guide for prompting open-weight Llama models.

Intermediate · llama · date not stated

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### [GPT-5 prompting guide](/e/openai-gpt-5-prompting-guide/index.md)

by [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/gpt-5/gpt-5_prompting_guide)

Model-specific advice on agentic eagerness, tool preambles and instruction conflicts.

Intermediate · gpt-5 · date not stated

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### [Reasoning best practices](/e/openai-reasoning-best-practices/index.md)

by [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/reasoning-best-practices)

When to pick a reasoning model and how prompting them differs from chat models.

Intermediate · openai-reasoning-models · date not stated

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### [Structured model outputs](/e/openai-structured-outputs/index.md)

by [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/structured-outputs)

How to get schema-valid JSON instead of hoping the model formats it right.

Intermediate · gpt · date not stated

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### [Prompt Engineering](/e/lilianweng-prompt-engineering/index.md)

by [Lilian Weng](https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-engineering/)

Dense, research-backed survey of prompting methods with citations.

Advanced · any · 2023-03-15

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### [The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques](/e/schulhoff-the-prompt-report/index.md)

by [Sander Schulhoff et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608)

A broad research taxonomy for comparing prompting techniques and finding their sources.

Advanced · any · 2024-06-06

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### [Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models](/e/wang-self-consistency/index.md)

by [Xuezhi Wang et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171)

Sample several reasoning paths and take the majority answer.

Advanced · any · 2022-03-21

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### [Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models](/e/wei-chain-of-thought-prompting/index.md)

by [Jason Wei et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903)

Early research on using worked reasoning examples to improve performance on reasoning tasks.

Advanced · any · 2022-01-28

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### [Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models](/e/yao-tree-of-thoughts/index.md)

by [Shunyu Yao et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601)

Search over branching reasoning steps; basis for many planning approaches.

Expert · any · 2023-05-17
